Storm and Sack: British Sieges, Violence and the Laws of War in the Napoleonic Era, 1799-1815

by Gavin Daly

During the Peninsular War, Wellington's army stormed and sacked three French-held Spanish towns: Ciudad Rodrigo (1812), Badajoz (1812) and San Sebastian (1813). Storm and Sack is the first major study of British soldiers' violence and restraint towards enemy combatants and civilians in the siege warfare of the Napoleonic era. Using soldiers' letters, diaries and memoirs, Gavin Daly compares and contrasts military practices and attitudes across British...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108836143
• ISBN13: 9781108836142
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"